> I get the distrust of large corporations and other obvious bad actors […]

> the blanket cynicism for all telemetry here is kinda surprising

Who's providing the telemetry/analytics if not one of same large corporations?

Many devs say they care about user privacy, but very few seem to care enough not to farm surveillance out to a 3rd-party they have no control over.

> Who's providing the telemetry/analytics if not one of same large corporations?

Erm. It would be me? The idea was that the app (not a web app btw) would send back data about which features were being used (to a server I control) so I could build up a picture of how often various features were being used relative to other features. Nothing remotely personally identifiable.

On official occasions.

British aristos tend to be outdoor sorts. Range Rover and a Barbour jacket.

QEII was always in wellies whenever she was off the clock.

But Kerouac didn't just crap his thoughts onto the page.

He edited his work heavily to achieve just the stream of consciousness feel he wanted.

A large part of the problem, imo, is that people haven't used the ability to talk to the entire planet as an opportunity to broaden their horizons, but to build themselves a transnational bubble of like-minded individuals.

Once upon a time, shouting "WTF are they thinking?" into the void was kinda understandable, but these days you can literally just ask them by changing a URL. Don't even have to go to a dodgy pub in an iffy part of town.

That said, assuming bad faith is so common these days, many people assume you're lying if your stated motives don't match their preconceptions.

> That said, assuming bad faith is so common these days, many people assume you're lying if your stated motives don't match their preconceptions.

A brutal reality to navigate if you're not acting in bad faith.

Ne, kannst du eigentlich nicht.

Du bist ja der liebevollmegahackerdorkygamingklugscheißerdatenrausch‑Guy!

::I am not a native speaker — intended to be playful::

I'm not a native-speaker either, but becoming so assimilated that jokes are no longer a laughing matter …

Sending someone something that'll take them longer to read than it took you to write is taking the piss.

I think that's a good rule of thumb for AI-generated output.

What if?

That's exactly what they do. It's 80c/month in Argentina.

Indeed, so what’s OP complaining about?

> it could substantially discourage non-citizen immigrants (legal or not)

Make an exception for owner-occupiers?

So like what California did, which resulted in only a couple hundred thousand units over half a decade when they were hoping for/needing a couple million statewide.

Not the mention that ironically, the private owners with the space to build an ADU on their lot are the ones most likely to already be wealthy, and not actually rent it out to anyone below their socioeconomic bracket.

Surely it depends what you're compromising.

Your demands are one thing, your integrity is another.

> You kind of always have to go on a quest for a library on the internet

Plenty of languages come with standard libraries that are more than sufficient for handling plenty of tasks.

There's nothing stopping anybody from making a batteries included lua, and plenty have done so (emilua, luapower, luaforwindows, luart and etc), of course, pure lua still exists and their changes are usually backported into lua since its so small and portable.

FWIW you can do a lot with pure lua and unless you're importing json there's no reason to include a library for it given that lua itself can be used as the data exchange format.